Catherine Fife MPP, Waterloo

Fund Our Schools

Direct the Minister of Education to immediately reverse the decision to cut $100 million in school repair funding, and invest the $16 billion needed to tackle the repair backlog in Ontario’s schools.

Whereas too many children are going to school in buildings withoutproper heating or cooling, with leaky roofs or stairways overdue for repair.Whereas after years of Conservative and Liberal governments neglectingschools, the backlog of needed repairs has reached $16 billion.

Whereas during the 2018 Election, numerous members of theConservative Party, including the current Minister of Education, pledgedto provide adequate, stable funding for Ontario’s schools.

Whereas less than three weeks into the legislative session, DougFord and the Conservative Government have already cut $100 million inmuch-needed school repairs, leaving our children and educators to sufferin classrooms that are unsafe and unhealthy.

We the undersigned petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario todirect the Minister of Education to immediately reverse the decisionto cut $100 million in school repair funding, and invest the $16 billionneeded to tackle the repair backlog in Ontario’s schools.